Pictures of the day – 10th March

Saturday 10 Mar 2012 6:00 pm

Pictures of the day – 10th March

A man and a boy carry a sotoba, a Japanese Buddhist grave marker, with the name of a family member who was killed during last year’s earthquake and tsunami at a cementery in Ofunato, Iwate Prefecture March 10, 2012, ahead of the one-year anniversary of the disasters

Women beat men with torn clothes during “Huranga” in the northern Indian city of Mathura

Policemen march as pedestrians gather to attend an opposition rally in Moscow to demand Vladimir Putin’s resignation and protest against electoral fraud

Free Syrian Army fighters console a comrade after an ambulance carried an injured friend to a hospital

A view of one of four forest fires ablaze in the Pyrenees in Lleida, northeastern Spain

Henry Frayne of Australia competes in the men’s long jump qualification during the world indoor athletics championships at the Atakoy Athletics Arena in Istanbul

Indians gather at the site of a fire in Hyderabad, India

The aurora borealis is seen in Alaska following a solar storm that shook the Earth’s magnetic field

Zebras graze in the Maasai Mara National Reserve in southwestern Kenya

Colleagues from the emergency services carry the coffin of PC Rathband from St Nicholas Cathedral as a memorial service is held